Thank you for the video! I love it. What a kind gesture. You just gave me a good laugh, which is a gift.
May this lent bring us all a renewed spiritual contrition in closeness with the Lord.
God Bless +++
I'm glad you received it well.
Somewhere in there, somehow, I did intend it to carry a note of humor, although for the life of me it isn't as apparent to me now as I recall it was then, just what that humorous aspect is, other than the questions and challenges which your comment elicited.
Contrition wiki notes reference Free Dictionary for Contriteness;
[Middle English contrit, from Latin contrītus, past participle of conterere, to crush : com-, com- + terere, to grind; see terə- in Indo-European roots.]To rub, turn; with some derivatives referring to twisting, boring, drilling, and piercing; and others referring to the rubbing of cereal grain to remove the husks, and thence to the process of threshing either by the trampling of oxen or by flailing with flails.
David paid for the threshing floor, yet it was not for his own payment of that place that the Lord stayed the hand of the Angel...(2 Samuel 24:16, 1 Chronicles 21).
I say the forgiveness came for Christ's own bodily sacrifice which was yet to come [from earthly perspective]1 Peter 1 20-21, Revelation 13:8, for without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin...(Hebrews 9:22.
Jesus paid the price, so that we could be free from the bondage and yoke of sin --- to no longer serve sin, but to serve Him (and His Father to whom to us He represents).
As Christ noted, it is the Holy Spirit which convicts the world (we who are in it) of sins (John 16:8), though it is also true that "the world" for the most part does not receive Him, or the Holy Spirit, resisting Him in that way, for He is not of this world
I do not believe anyone can approach the Lord other than upon His terms, regardless of how much one may castigate themselves for whatever it is they may have done wrong --- or for even being born (and existing) in the first place.
Trying to convict ourselves just doesn't work. It's not the same as being under the conviction (and correction) of the Spirit of the Lord, although there are indeed many imitations that have come about from either 'man', or men under influence of deceiving spirits, to substitute (or simply add to) Christ's own ultimate sacrifice made in payment for our sin.
He did promise to send the Holy Spirit to the His disciples, (John 14:26
Notice Jesus did not anywhere say, or even hint at saying;
-- or even be the mother of all whom would truly respond to Him.
I add that for reason that I do regard looking to that entity which you termed "Our Lady" to be serious error, theologically and (more importantly) spiritually speaking also.
The Holy Spirit surely does not "bring to my remembrance" that the virgin chosen to bring His flesh & blood, earthly Incarnation into this earthly realm which we inhabit would be the one to whom I should direct my own prayers, in hopes that "she" would "bless" and protect me from the wrath of her son, Jesus (as Bernard of Clairvaux and Simon DeMontfort would have it to be).
Repent, turn aside from such Marianist devotions. "Mary" saves no one. Never has and never will. She can't (and did not) even save her own self...
All the excuse making -- like --- "she only points us to Jesus" and "we only pray to her to ask 'her' to pray for us" is just so much double-talk. I'm sick of it. I can't stand it. I never will abide it, or suffer it. Worship God, alone. To Him goes the Glory. Not to "Mary", or to some so-called "priesthood" or to *some* so-called Church, either.
"But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one."
There is no other name under heaven by which we may be saved. Jesus, the Christ --- Alone.
Or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone (that is, the only one)
The Lord was reliant upon such as the virgin, Mary, for Himself to be born into this earthly realm...yet God the Father created her as He did all of creation, which makes it to be that He utilized her, and (God bless her) she was willing.
Even so, He is not now or was ever before reliant upon her as "Queen of Heaven" to tell Him what to do(!).
...“Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!
For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”